Why Sharks?

My first Blog

Taken from Bite-Back Website

Right now shark, marlin, swordfish, monkfish and orange roughy are being threatened with extinction. Consumer demand for these species has outstripped supply and now these increasingly rare fish are being killed faster than they can reproduce

However, there is only one reason why this catastrophic situation remains uncurbed … because people continue to buy these fish.

When we stop buying these fish, they'll stop killing them.

Without change, we are either participants or witnesses to an underwater genocide fuelled purely by greed, ignorance and ambivalence.

In fact not since the height of the ivory trade in the early 1980s, when 200 elephants were being killed each day, has the planet known of a killing spree so senseless and unnecessary.

6:36 AM - 1/12/2006 - post comment